diff --git a/.ci/test.sh b/.ci/test.sh
index cc8831f94c09..82c159064a33 100755
--- a/.ci/test.sh
+++ b/.ci/test.sh
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ if [[ $TASK == "check-docs" ]] || [[ $TASK == "check-links" ]]; then
     make -C docs html || exit 1
     if [[ $TASK == "check-links" ]]; then
         # check docs for broken links
-        pip install linkchecker
-        linkchecker --config=.linkcheckerrc ./docs/_build/html/*.html || exit 1
+        pip install 'linkchecker>=10.5.0'
+        linkchecker --config=./docs/.linkcheckerrc ./docs/_build/html/*.html || exit 1
         exit 0
     fi
     # check the consistency of parameters' descriptions and other stuff
diff --git a/docs/.linkcheckerrc b/docs/.linkcheckerrc
index 003d8699a875..a4707aa536ea 100644
--- a/docs/.linkcheckerrc
+++ b/docs/.linkcheckerrc
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [checking]
-maxrequestspersecond=1
+maxrequestspersecond=0.1
 recursionlevel=1
 anchors=1
 sslverify=0
-threads=1
+threads=4
 
 [filtering]
 ignore=